January 19th, 2006 by admin
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Over the past 15 years, the hubble space telescope has been photographing the heavens, and taking some of the most spectacular and breathtaking pictures most people have ever seen. Some of the pictures have become legendary. I remember when the stellar nursery made the front page of the Philedelphia Inquirer. (This was shortly after they started printing color photos too). The helix nebula has spawned it’s own chain letter, which I once recieved in Hebrew. One of the many views of the cat’s eye nebula has been compared to Sauron’s eye from Lort of The Rings. While watching an episode of Star Trek voyager a few weeks ago, I noticed that in the astrometrics lab on the ship, two of the panels were displaying hubble pics – those being the cat’s eye nebula and the aforementioned stellar nursery. (And yes I recognized them both and identified them both immediately by name without help, because yes, I am that nerdy). About a week ago the hubble made public pictures of the orion nebula. The Orion nebula is 1500 light years away, and one of the most spectacular sights ever captured by man or machine. The small image at right really doesn’t do it justice. Either click it to see the larger image, or go to the hubble tour page to see an in depth view.
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January 21st, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Don’t you mean Lord of the Rings? ;)
You’d better watch your typing when you write an on-line blog,
Else for your ticked-off readers ‘twould be like reading through thick smog…
(I hope you liked my verse…)